Develop your skills with our in-house CPD courses!

Here at Simply Education, we invest in the training of our supply staff. Our dedicated Education Development Managers provide a fantastic selection of in-house Continuous Professional Development courses - including certified safeguarding training, behaviour management and positive handling - to all registered candidates.
Below you will find further details of the wide range of courses that our Education Development Managers have on offer.

A 1 hour course to cover a range of effective teaching strategies to help ensure pupils make great progress.
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Advanced Teaching Skills Workshop

The most common negative behaviours / low level disruption experienced by all teachers consists of calling out, chatting at inappropriate times, arriving late, asking distracting questions, tapping, rocking, anything involving make-up or telecommunications equipment or indeed any other behaviour that impedes learning. It sounds insignificant, but is something many teachers struggle with every day. You will learn and discuss fresh ideas and techniques, exploring the necessary skills needed to manage the behaviour for learning in classrooms. The skills covered will help to reduce your stress and make your classroom a much better place to work for you and your pupils.
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Behaviour Management

Our approach to behaviour management is based on maintaining the maximum focus on learning in the classroom. Our webinar allows attendees to discuss four classroom scenarios (based on common challenges we have seen during over 1100 lesson observations). The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will then elaborate, where necessary, to share the good practice we have seen for each scenario.
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Behaviour Management

Our new Behaviour Management for Key Stage 1 webinar discusses some positive responses to a range of undesirable classroom behaviours seen in young children and gives the opportunity to discuss a range of behaviour challenges presented by pupils in Years 1 & 2 with our Education Development Managers.
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Behaviour Management for Key Stage 1

Our approach to behaviour management is based on maintaining the maximum focus on learning in the classroom. Our webinar allows attendees to discuss four classroom scenarios (from the TA’s perspective – with small groups, targeted individuals and while used for general support). The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will then elaborate, where necessary, to share the good practice we have seen for each scenario.
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Behaviour Management for Teaching Assistants

An Education Endowment Foundation study shows that there is a ‘best way’ to use TA’s skills to support learning, and a least productive way (which is quite common in schools!). We discuss how TAs should be employed to help pupils learn best and retain what they learn through and how to structure their briefing and debriefing for maximum impact. The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Best Use of TAs for Intervention (for Teachers and TAs):

A one day course to introduce / refresh key skills and raise awareness of the required qualities and latest standards / expectations for practicing Cover Supervisors.

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Cover Supervisor Training

Based on over 1100 classroom observations, we discuss a range of effective de-escalation practices in this two-part webinar. Each part is comprised of a range of discussion points for attendees to consider in breakout rooms before good practice is shared and developed by the course leader. Further reading is supplied along with links to a series of recommended video clips to enable attendees to broaden their perspectives on the guidance offered within each part of this webinar.
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De-escalation Practices

This one day course is designed to refresh key EYFS skills and update awareness of the latest standards as outlined in the 2021 EYFS framework.

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Early Years Foundation: Strategies and Behaviour

A course designed to explore and develop teaching strategies to ensure effective feedback in the classroom. Providing high-quality feedback to pupils is integral to effective teaching. Equally, gathering feedback on how well pupils have learned a topic is important in enabling teachers to address any misunderstanding and provide the right level of challenge in future lessons.
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Effective Feedback

If feedback is to make rapid and sustained impact on learning, it needs to be given when and how pupils can digest and act on it to improve subsequent work. It cannot be overly onerous for you or them, otherwise it is quickly devalued and becomes almost pointless. Our effective feedback webinar asks some reflective questions and prompts thought about essential and efficient feedback styles, redefining purpose and offering strategies that work. The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Effective Feedback

Most teachers talk too much. That means pupils are having to listen attentively for long periods of time, which is harder for some than others. Conversely, pupils like to talk, and teachers don’t let them enough. This webinar explores positive strategies to use talk for learning, so that engagement levels are higher and the classroom a more enjoyable place to work. The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Effective Teacher Talk

Candidates are expected to undertake online interviews in the time of lockdown, even though many have little experience of doing so. In the comfort of your own home it is easy to appear too relaxed or to be off-guard in front of an interviewer who may have completed many more online interviews. Our aim is to help prepare the candidates for both the interview content / typical questions AND the best approach to take in an online forum.
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Get the Job (interview practice webinar)

This 2 day course will raise awareness of the approaches taken by effective teachers and teaching assistants working with very challenging pupils in Special Schools.
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Introduction to SEN Teaching

A two day course to refresh key skills and update awareness of latest standards / expectations specifically designed for teachers returning to teaching after a prolonged absence or moving from a permanent / overseas position into supply teaching in England and Wales.
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Introduction to Supply Teaching

A course squarely aimed at those wishing to become Cover Supervisors but who do not have much relevant classroom experience. It will help professionals from other trades interested in teaching to secure the requirements to allow them to work as day-to-day cover supervisors (if they meet relevant compliance standards). The course introduces key skills and raises awareness of the required qualities and latest standards/expectations of the role.
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Introduction to the Cover Supervisor Role

A two-day course designed to help new TAs without much relevant experience appreciate essential classroom approaches and the strategies to deliver them.
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Introduction to the Teaching Assistant Role

Modelling learning may seem like second nature to many teachers and TAs. Basic modelling is common in classrooms, and is often done well, but not always. The more exciting forms of modelling are less common and have a great impact on the rate of learning. It is the aim of this webinar to share those strategies and re-inspire teachers and TAs to use them through the exploration of four controversial questions. The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Modelling Learning

In our many lesson observations, lessons are too commonly ended with either a brief, superficial plenary (check of understanding gained in the lesson) or none at all (because time was poorly managed). This webinar reinforces the purpose of the plenary at the end of the lesson (and mini-plenaries throughout the lesson), and discusses best practice to both value / celebrate learning from the lesson and allow the teacher to judge progress made (in order to inform planning and teaching in the subsequent lesson(s). The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Powerful Plenaries

This half-day course is designed to move teachers on from one-at-a-time, hands-up questioning that leaves many pupils disengaged and bored; a common symptom of underperformance.
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Questioning for Engagement

Pupils learn at different rates, are able to process and apply that learning at different rates, and are able to retain that learning for different durations. You would be forgiven if you thought we were going to discuss differentiation here! We are, from an ‘access to learning’ perspective, but the hard-core differentiation is discussed in the next webinar! In this webinar, we dissect four common barriers to learning and explore the best way to help the pupils affected enjoy their learning as much as their peers. The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Removing Barriers to Learning

The SGW comprises 4 talk-points which attendees discuss with 3 - 4 colleagues in Zoom breakout rooms before returning to share their ideas with the host Education Development Manager and members of other breakout rooms. A summary of important considerations for each point discusses is made available after the webinar. Attendees can ask questions and request further resources.
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Safeguarding

A variety of SG courses are in use at present, including the old Generalist Safeguarding (SG) and new Online Safeguarding (OSG).
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Safeguarding Courses

A half day course to refresh key skills and raise awareness of the requirements / expectations for all teachers regarding the new ‘0-25 SEN Code of Practice’.
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Special Education Needs (Disability) Update

The course covers a range of very practical classroom strategies that TAs can use to help pupils better access their learning. Including approaches that can be tailored to individuals or small groups, course attendees will have the opportunity to practice relevant activities and work with peers to develop their understanding. This course expands our range of courses supporting TAs and those going into special schools to work as intervention tutors.
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Virtual

Supporting Teachers in the Classroom

A one day course to make Teaching Assistants aware of the challenges and needs faced by learners with significant special needs, either in Special Schools or mainstream provisions.

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Virtual

Teaching Assistant Introduction to Special Schools

A half day course to refresh key skills and raise awareness of the requirements / expectations for all teaching assistants.

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Virtual

Teaching Assistant Workshop

This is our NEW Virtual Teaching Autistic Pupils (VTAP) training course (90 mins), in which we discuss needs of pupils with autism and approaches to help them feel comfortable and stay focused in both mainstream and Special Schools. Our VTAP training will give you the opportunity to discuss the issues suffered by pupils with autism, to prepare you with strategies for the challenges you may face and as such allow them to make better progress.
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Teaching Autistic Pupils

Based on a fun summary of bad teaching practice in one of our Teaching Skills Resources called ’39 Steps to Teaching Hell’, this webinar looks to explore good teaching practice from the perspective of avoiding the poor practices included. As this is still in the planning phase we may develop more than one of these webinars to cover four ‘strategies to avoid’ in each. The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.
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Teaching Hell! (Avoiding poor practice)

This is our NEW Virtual Teaching Pupils with ADHD (VADHD) training course (90 mins), in which we discuss needs of pupils with ADHD and approaches to help them stay focused in both mainstream and Special Schools. Our VADHD training will give you the opportunity to discuss the issues suffered by pupils with ADHD, to prepare you with strategies for the challenges you may face and as such allow them to make better progress.
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Teaching Pupils with ADHD

This is our Virtual SEND Intervention (VSENDI) webinar (90 mins), in which we discuss expectations and approaches to help pupils with SEND in both mainstream and Special Schools return to school successfully and catch-up on missed work as quickly as possible after months at home. Our VSENDI training will give you the opportunity to discuss the differences in supporting pupils with SEND across a range of institutions, and to prepare you for the challenges you may face. It would be beneficial for attendees to have attended the ‘Best Use of Teaching Assistants for Intervention’ webinar prior to this webinar.

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Virtual SEND Intervention

Differentiation is often seen as an ‘extra’; an extra thing to plan, an extra thing to remember, an extra thing to mark. Good teachers realise that effective differentiation SAVES time and effort, and helps maintain a much more positive climate for learning. Failure to differentiate at least one significant activity per lesson may leave higher and lower attaining pupils feeling frustrated and that you do not VALUE their learning (and by extension them). And then the disruption starts! We discuss four of the simplest and most effective ways of differentiating (upwards and downwards). The Education Development Manager (EDM) leading the webinar will elaborate on answers taken, where necessary.

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‘Painless’ Differentiation

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